Spending

Not long ago the Merrimack School board made an unprecedented move.  In the shrinking shadow of declining enrollment, they decided to cut staff.  That’s right teachers.  But in the intervening weeks since the plan was submitted there has been a change of heart.  Call it “Budget Cutter’s Remorse.”  Or more likely, the union and the towns’ grow government first lobby applied enough local pressure to convince the weak links on the school board to put the teachers back in the budget. 

The default response by the Liberty-deniers on the left to the suggestion that we need to cut taxes is that education and public safety will be hurt by any effort to return the peoples money to the people.  It is chapter and verse for liberals to pry at the soft edges of the electorate with words of warning about how Republican efforts to shrink government will hurt their children, the elderly, or the disadvantaged.  And if you happen to disagree, they treat you like idiots for failing to be as smart as they think they are.  Just look at Chairman Buckley's response to the public beating taken by Jeff Goley yesterday.

In a district that is 36% Republican, 32% Democrat, and 32% Independent, Jeff Goley and the NH Democrat party, if I'm reading this right, spent close to $60K (maybe more by the final report) to turn a 4% registration deficit into a 16% loss.  Talk about bad ROI. 

Dave Boutin took every town, and every Ward, including Jeff Goley’s own Ward in a 58% to 42% sweep.  Boutin collected 3796 to Goley’s 2756 with what looks like less than 17% of registered voters casting a ballot. 

For those considering a limited government approach to their Congressional district 2 candidates, a short trip across the internet, I like to call it Bass Fishing in this instance, can be very revealing. 

But before I share the results, let me preface by saying this.  This is about Charlie Bass’ actual voting record, not Charlie Bass.  And I think the Record speaks for itself.

The Goley campaign has nothing to run on so it has set about lying in broad daylight in the slim hope that someone will buy in.  Note the choice of words there?  Buy in.  Go along Goley has been using the citizens of New Hampshire as an ATM machine to finance his grow government first style of "follow-ship" so buying-in is not just a metaphor for belief.  He's been bought and sold to the liberal spendaholic agenda.   Jeff gladly spent 23% more of your money on government, imagining revenue, with no idea how to really pay for it, then voted liberally to extract those costs from your pocket when the money just never showed up.

Just this past week Rep Jeff Goley refused to prohibit lobbyists from serving on a public agency or public body where the lobbyist gains from the activity of the public agency or body.  He also refused to return revenue to the towns, and voted against returning the revenue sharing rules back to pre 2009 levels. That would be the rules before the state spent so much in two consecutive budgets that they had to screw the towns out of even more revenue to try and balance their bloated state budget. 

What does this say about Rep Goley?  That he is all in on spending without knowing how to pay for it, but all out when it comes to giving money back to the people who earned it. 

One of the fun things about observing liberal policy is leaning out of the hedgerow and looking up the path to see where it's headed.  With the governments take over of college education loans, and their commitment to sending millions more students into the university system, (whether they want to, need to, or not) we see several left wing desires come together.

In this mornings Union Leader democrat Mark Fernald makes what he assumes is a reasoned appeal for why the change in income distributions or dividends for LLC’s is not a tax, is actually fair, and why all the objectors should be quiet.  But he makes his case based on assumptions only a pro government liberal could make.